Another two laps were lost from the scheduled 23 while the red machine was removed, but Filippi wasted little time in making up ground on the restart. The Italian demoted Garcia to third at the opening corner of lap six, while Glock disposed of Soucek in similar fashion to mount his own assault on the lead, the German passing Garcia next time around to move into the top three.
Throughout the order, the race proved more akin to the GP2 of old after Saturday's somewhat more processional affair, with Giorgio Pantano contributing to the action with a double pass on Chandhok and Nakajima, as the Durango and DAMS drivers squabbled over ninth. The Italian then jumped the battle-scarred Zaugg for eighth and Soucek for seventh, completing his rise from 25th on the grid, but would go little further as his Campos car ran into transmission problems eight laps from the flag.
Zaugg's damage count was not helped by Chandhok, who snagged the battered Arden car at turn one on lap eight, the billowing sidepod eventually forcing the South African into the pits for repairs and ending hopes of a double points finish on debut. Chandhok spun in the incident, similarly ending his chances of a scoring appearance.
With ten laps down, Glock moved into second spot, showing Filippi what might have been possible on Saturday had it not been for suspension damage incurred in the first lap brush with Xandi Negrao. Once ahead of the Italian, however, the iSport driver found it hard to make ground on leader Lapierre, easing the Frenchman's path to the finish.
Without pit-stops to help shuffle the order, the field did its best to shake things up by any means possible, culminating in Pastor Maldonado taking Trident team-mate Kohei Hirate out of the action and Racing Engineering's Sergio Jiminez spinning himself into retirement.
